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Quotes About Proximity

Foster golf club and cemetery - Only one stroke away from each other...
~ David Helyar
We cannot read each other's hearts, and sadly, silence is its own pervasive pastime. We are disposed more to assuming masks than we are to revealing the tenderness and freight within that might transform the world. More than any other time in history it seems the man and woman standing in close proximity to each other in a subway car are as far away from each other as two galaxies.
~ David Lehman
Proximity, I have learned, is often as effective as violence.
~ David Liss
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Nothing is far from God.
~ Saint Monica
As close as you are to God, so close is God to you.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
~ Leopold von Ranke
God is nearer to us than our own spirit
~ Julian of Norwich
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
~ Matthew Henry
The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.
~ Thomas Merton
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
~ Meister Eckhart
As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.
~ Thomas Nash
My position as a follower of God is not to show you how close I am to God—my job is to show you how close you are to God […]. (Simon)
~ Pete Conrad, The Arbiters
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
~ Robert Capa
The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.
~ Jane Rule
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
~ Robert Menzies
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
~ John Burroughs
There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
~ Eliza Haywood
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Happiness can be close by, even if your heart is far away.
~ Lisa Mangum
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
~ Seneca the Younger
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
~ Aeschylus
A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.
~ Julius Nyerere